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Re:Every windows application
http://www.wine-doors.org/ (i've never used it.)
Site returns:
"Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it."Which pretty much says it all.
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Re:Every windows application
http://www.wine-doors.org/ (i've never used it.)
You could always create foo.desktop files that i can then click on on my desktop, or in the menus of your favorite DE. most file managers will let you tell it what program to use to open files with a certain file extension. just tell it to open *.exe with wine. there is also winecfg, shipped with wine, that lets you set audio settings, and lib overrides, and such. Also regedit exists as well.
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<sarcasm>Very original idea</sarcasm>
'If another CrossOver user has figured out how to use CrossOver to install a Windows application, they can upload that installation recipe to our database,'
This sounds a lot like Wine-doors.
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Re:"Power Users"? I don't think so...
Someone should make packages for installing proprietary closed-source applications with Wine.
I think that is what Wine Doors is trying to do:
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Re:The main reason
There ARE games for Linux: Wine works surprisingly well, but there should be an automatic way of getting the needed libraries for any particular app
I strongly recommend you try Wine Doors if you haven't already.
It's probably not included in the default installation because I think you have to have a Windows license to install some of the DLLs and such (then again, who doesn't have a couple of those sitting around?)
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Re:How many IT professionals...Why do we have to re-educate users on a whole new OS and interface? Perhaps because you refuse to educate yourself? at the moment we have too many critical applications that won't work without IE or cannot be adapted to a Citrix environment. Adaptation? What adaptation? I find myself repeating, like a broken record...
I installed IE6 on my Ubuntu machine in six clicks... two to bounce down through the applications menu to wine-doors, one to select "Internet Explorer 6", one to click "install", one to click "apply"... and another to watch the progress of the install (I've got this thing for progress bars and messages).
Stop whining about not being able to use Win32 apps on your linux box, and look into this nifty-neato-keen new project, called wine . Oh, wait... it's not new, it has been around for 14 years. Get with the program.
Yes, there are some configuration steps that need taken. Yes, this is all "beta" software. On the other hand, we're not paying for the privilege of testing it, and it's marked as a beta, not being marketed as a finished product. I'd like to add that most GPL'd "betas" I've seen for *nix operating systems work better than a lot of the Win32 programs I've seen touted as finished product... nevermind that wine has been in "beta" for over a decade (see above).
WoW plays nicely, running at approximately 1-2 fps less on my Ubuntu box than the same machine with XP(tm) installed on it. It's installable with wine-doors. No, it's not perfect, but it's completely playable, and all my mods work as well as they do under Windows(tm). This is my answer to those who say "but what about my games?!?"
For those who prefer a more fruity (and expensive) operating system (yes, I'm talking about Apple, here), you should look into Parallels. I hear it's quite good, but have not touched an apple product since the old
To summarize, perhaps you should look at some of the accepted alternatives to running "native" software before you decide to follow the herd.
Yeah, I know that statement doesn't really seem to make sense, if you think about it, but hey, this is Slashdot. Gotta give the grammar nazis *something* to feed on...
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Re: How about something that just works?Oddly enough, I run IE6 on my Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon install. It magically appeared in about 6 clicks, using WineDoors, a program that makes installation of a small number of Windows apps ridiculously simple. It's still in a 0.1 version, or some such, thus the "small number of apps". If you're running Ubuntu, or another debian-based distro, the
IE isn't the only thing it sets up for you; WoW, Steam, EVE are also minimally intrusive installs... People love to say that gaming is the reason they stick to Windows... this is my way of calling BS.
Besides, I love seeing the looks on friends' faces when they realize that I'm not running Windows, when they just borrowed my Internet Explorer to check their email >:)
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And to bring things closer
I've found this lovely project. It's called Wine-Doors, and it's a Package Manager for Windows programs under Linux. Like Apt-Get.
Seems to work pretty well, too.
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Re:Wine breaks backward compatibility a lot.
Pretty much every application or game I use under Wine requires either a patch against wine or some app specific hack to get it working properly, and often they don't work in the next Wine version. Wine is great but setting up multiple apps or games to work under it is horrible.
This is a known problem, and the tools Wine-Doors and Winebot are working to address it. These tools make installing Windows software in Linux as easy as using a native package manager (apt, rpm, etc). They also track the specific hacks needed to make an application work, and provide an easy method for developers to test for regressions. Unfortunately, these tools are still in their infancy and so have a relatively small selection of supported aps, but they certainly bear watching. -
Re:Any chance of a merge?
Theres http://www.wine-doors.org/ to help with installing, its at v0.1 but works great here.